IOR/L/PS/12/3769B

The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency at Bahrain for January 1948 until January 1950 (not for the year 1946 as the title suggests). The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office, and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East.

The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following topics:

• Shipping
• Visits of British and foreign notables
• Economic and commercial matters
• Local news and affairs, as well as that of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, and the Trucial Coast
• The work of Bahrain Petroleum Company, and the oil industry more generally
• American interests in the region
• Local reaction to international events such as those in Palestine and Syria
• The activities of the Royal Navy
• The supply of electricity, water and telecommunications
• Aviation
• The work of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit
• The traffic of slaves
• Quarantine and medical matters
• Weather and meteorological data.

There are occasional hand-written comments in the margins of the reports.

In addition to the reports, the file contains a copy of a letter sent from the Government of Pakistan's Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Department in Karachi to British officials in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain concerning the alleged kidnapping and enslavement of girls in Baluchistan by 'Arab traders in dates', 9 March 1949 (folio 91).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.